Ronald Colman plays an MP addicted to drugs, and a double recruited to cover for him.Ronald Colman plays an MP addicted to drugs, and a double recruited to cover for him.Ronald Colman plays an MP addicted to drugs, and a double recruited to cover for him.
Harry Allen
- Bartender
- (uncredited)
Frank Baker
- Member of the House
- (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Cissy Fitzgerald
- Dancing Dowager
- (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
- Bobby Blessington
- (uncredited)
Henry Hebert
- Member of the House
- (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
- Doctor
- (uncredited)
Grace Poggi
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Alexander Pollard
- Member of the House
- (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw
- Speaker of the House
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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A slickly produced Goldwyn production...
...about a drug addicted British MP, who is falling apart, who encounters a lookalike cousin in a London fog, later seeks him out to replace him in the House of Commons the following day when a great speech is expected of him. Not surprisingly for a melodrama of this kind the cousin accepts the offer and carries off the speech with flying colors to the praise of all England. It then becomes difficult for the cousin to extricate himself from his fake ID, however, things becoming even more complicated when the MP's wife returns home from France.
These two cousins are so alike, not only in appearance but voice that nobody, of course, can tell them apart, including the wife as well as the MP's mistress. Despite the silliness and familiarity of the story, once you get past the implausibilities of the plot, The Masquerader is a fun film (impossible to take seriously, of course) thanks to the charm and skill of Ronald Colman in the dual roles of druggie MP and smooth talking imposter cousin. It reminds one of Colman's similar dual turn four years later in The Prisoner of Zenda.
Elissa Landi plays the MP's wife who, after a strained marriage with the MP, falls in love all over again with her imposter husband. Halliwell Hobbes, forever cast as a butler, is in that familiar role once again, only this time he's the only one in the film who actually knows there are two Colmans. The split screen effects, by the way, in which we see Colman sharing the screen with Colman, are expertly achieved, on a par with the similar effects in Zenda a few years later.
These two cousins are so alike, not only in appearance but voice that nobody, of course, can tell them apart, including the wife as well as the MP's mistress. Despite the silliness and familiarity of the story, once you get past the implausibilities of the plot, The Masquerader is a fun film (impossible to take seriously, of course) thanks to the charm and skill of Ronald Colman in the dual roles of druggie MP and smooth talking imposter cousin. It reminds one of Colman's similar dual turn four years later in The Prisoner of Zenda.
Elissa Landi plays the MP's wife who, after a strained marriage with the MP, falls in love all over again with her imposter husband. Halliwell Hobbes, forever cast as a butler, is in that familiar role once again, only this time he's the only one in the film who actually knows there are two Colmans. The split screen effects, by the way, in which we see Colman sharing the screen with Colman, are expertly achieved, on a par with the similar effects in Zenda a few years later.
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- May 5, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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